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Curt SchleichMar 7, 2002 8:01 am 
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Subject:[courier-users] Am I tarpitting myself??? One more question.Actions...
From:Curt Schleich (cvsl@hotmail.com)
Date:Mar 7, 2002 8:01:01 am
List:net.sourceforge.lists.courier-users

One more question pertains: Is there anything that logs tarpit activation so that I can watch for it to happen?

Thanks again.

But if this service is forwarding all of the mail, including mal-addressed spam causing 550 errors, won't that trigger the tarpitting? If so, a clue as to how to disable/remove the tarpitting would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks, Sam!

From: Sam Varshavchik <mrs@courier-mta.com>

To: cour@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [courier-users] Re: Am I tarpitting myself??? Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 15:00:23 -0500

Curt Schleich writes:

through a mail filtering service. It appears that courier (full suite version 0.37.2.20020131) is tarpitting my mail filtering service. Is there a config option I can use to exclude a particular domain or group of servers from the tarpitting? If not could someone shine a flashlight into the source to ge me started?

Tarpitting is only activated if the sender repeatedly issues ESMTP commands that result in consecutive errors. Look in the error log to determine what errors they are generating, and go from there.